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the democratic base fthey weren t awake, they have found occasion to wake up. greta: he may win the supreme court battle. that s a real whodunit. talk about close ones. greta: indeed. greta: straight ahead, dick morris is here next. and a new red flag signaling the u.s. is on a dangerous path that the explosive debt will lead to economic disaster. paul ryan goes on the record. first the boardroom and then television and is it now the movies? donald trump is next.
greta: you hear about raising taxes and republicans don t want to raise taxes and in thees want to. it s hard when you have the discussion about raising taxes when we see that the government has parceled money, looked the other way, $70 billion and never bothered to see it be used or we recover it back into the treasury. look, big picture, at least $400 million a year is in duplication, waste or fraud greta: that s another category! that s another category! that s per year! per year. we are talking about raising taxes. we are talking about the federal government borrowing $1.4 trillion and here s $400 million. and they refuse in amendment after amendment to buy into ways to solve that because every one of these programs have a constituent. and nobody wants to buck a constituent by doing the right thing. the real constituent is our kids and our country. and so we are not doing when we need to do to fix the problems
greta: $70 billion of your tax money wasted. tom coburn is coming up. but first, the headlines. hi, gret a. united nations observers come under fire in syria, as they try to get to the latest massacre scene. activists say government troops killed nearly 80 people, many, women and children. the syrian government blamed terrorists. the danger of a full-scale war is imminent and real and the consequences would be catastrophic for the entire region. police spending hours combing through the home of a suspected murderer in a decades-old missing child kiss, confessing to killing etan patz. i m marianne rafferty. now back to on the record. greta: almost $16 trillion.
so there is either the justice department s refusing or the speaker s posturing and not letting you, or you enjoy the subpoena and the hot seat. something s not right t. doesn t take that long not to get the answers? we have sufficient answers to know that justice is not well run. that there is not real account ability in approving the wire taps and controlling the actions of the atf and other agencies. that, we know. but, greta, knowing there is a problem is not about fixing the problem. we want to know enough to be able to fix the problem. i will give you one that is very important. from what we can tell, the approval process for wire taps pretty darn important document. the approval process seems to be broken because everyone up to jason weinstein signs the documents based on a cover sheet, not based on the documentation that the judge sees, but based on a summary sheet. so they don t know what is in them, they only know the summary